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But also had a bigger, longer-lastg impact on the nng muny: spired the lnch of The Frontnners movement.<br /></p><p data-no-id="1" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">The London branch, found 1995, is now the largt lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) sports club Europe, wh more than 500 members. ‘Back the mid-1990s, was even more difficult to be openly gay a sportg environment,’ says club -print Jamie Keenan. ‘So part of the club’s missn statement was to provi a safe space for members of the LGBT muny who are terted nng.’ </p><style data-emotn="css 14wkrx5">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;} img{width:to;height:m(85vh, 85vh);marg:0 to;object-f:ver;max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;} img{width:to;height:m(85vh, 85vh);marg:0 to;object-f:ver;max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;} img{width:to;height:m(85vh, 85vh);marg:0 to;object-f:ver;max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;} img{width:to;height:m(85vh, 85vh);marg:0 to;object-f:ver;max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;} img{width:to;height:m(85vh, 85vh);marg:0 to;object-f:ver;max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;} img{width:to;height:m(85vh, 85vh);marg:0 to;object-f:ver;max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;} img{width:to;height:m(85vh, 85vh);marg:0 to;object-f:ver;max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;} img{width:to;height:m(85vh, 85vh);marg:0 to;object-f:ver;max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="screenheight" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="2" class="align-center size-screenheight embed css-14wkrx5 e1xqj1sx4"><style data-emotn="css uwraif">{width:100%;display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;}</style><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="london ontnners" tle="London Frontnners" loadg="lazy" width="5472" height="3648" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><style data-emotn="css swqnqv">@media(m-width: 20rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}</style><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-o4xi81 e6iqd2">Rudolph van Graan</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="3" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">The nng element is important to the club, and the Frontnners have plenty of ont-nng members, but ’s also not the be-all and end-all. ‘I was one of those people who worried that I was too slow to jo a club, and I shouldn’t have been,’ says Keenan. ‘If you n n a parkn, then you’re good to go.’ </p><p data-no-id="4" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">This supportive attu was noticed immediately by Neil Colquhoun, when he me down to his first track ssn five years ago. ‘I thk n be que timidatg for a part-time nner to jo a nng club,’ he says. ‘A lot of the webs of the more tradnal nng clubs looked a b ser, whereas the Frontnners ma sure I had someone to n wh, and then I got ved to the pub afterwards.’ </p><p data-no-id="5" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">It was a siar story wh -print Kirsty Fz-Poole, who went along to her first Frontnners ssn shortly after movg to London om Chter. ‘In London, ’s hard to make new iends and n be a b lonely,’ she says. ‘The Frontnners very quickly beme my social life. We’ve always got rac or trag to chat about, and we’ve been away on lots of ternatnal trips where we’ve met Frontnners om other untri.’</p><p data-no-id="6" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">That’s the bety of Frontnners: ’s not a sgle nng club so much as a global work. The London branch has regular visors om around the world, many of whom e for the Pri Run 10K, which Frontnners supports. ‘Most nng clubs are fed by geography,’ says Colquhoun. ‘We’ve got that other nnectn that spans ci and untri.’</p><style data-emotn="css 10klw3m">{height:100%;}</style><div data-embed="facebook" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><style data-emotn="css 63r9na">{-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;m-height:10rem;background-lor:#F5F5F5;lor:#000;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;height:100%;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;}</style><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><style data-emotn="css 1msakm2">{width:3.125rem;height:3.125rem;}</style><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" 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